SubscribeOk, so I am a bit late commenting on this I know but last weekend the Rudd government hosted the Australia 2020 summit. An exercise in listening to a handpicked collection of 1000 Australians for new ideas or re-hashed old ideas. In the words of Russell Skelton:
For one weekend a national conversation took place about [...]
The View from Down Here
The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair
Month: April, 2008
Australia 2020
Anzac thoughts
I watched a lot of television yesterday: the ANZAC day coverage. Moved and annoyed.
My grandfather was an engineer during WWI – on the Western Front. He came back and married my grandmother sometime later. He lived to 91. It might be hard to argue that his life was shortened, but as I sat there watching [...]
just as an aside
I seem to be keen on this writing thing today so
I have had until recently it seems a rather swanky diary — a day timer which i was slowly starting to rely on as my solution to organisation and generally getting things sorted. Yet somehow rather stupidly I have misplaced it. Quite seriously perhaps as [...]
Quote
Found this interesting from Hugh Mackay an Australian thinker:
“morality (because they) relate to our willingness- as individuals and as a society- to accept some responsibility for each other’s wellbeing.”
RDO
I am having my first RDO today. I need it. I have been feeling under amazing pressure lately. I struggle even now to work out the words to describe it. So I won’t force it.
I am spending it rugged up, listening to Tibetian music. Trying to be still. Tried a meditation today. It has been [...]
